The circus is in town.
The Catholic church has organised a World Youth Day in Sydney. Federal ($22 million) and state ($86 million) government, as well as some blue chips are sponsoring what is essentially a marketing campaign for the Vatican.
Due to the criticism this event has attracted, the government passed a new law which threatens protesters whose actions are deemed to offend the pilgrims (e.g. wearing a t-shirt that reads “There is no God” or handing out condoms) with a $5500 fine.
Yesterday Nine Inch Nails released a new album on the official band website (http://nin.com/). It is free to download in a number of formats, including 320kbps .MP3’s for your iPod, .M4A’s (an apple lossless format), .FLAC, and better-than-CD-quality 24-bit 96kHz WAVE’s.
Download it here: http://theslip.nin.com/
A brochure I made up to distribute around the psych faculty.
[EDIT] The protest has been rescheduled to 1:45pm.
I am a product of evolution, a complex biological specimen. When I die, I will rot. I have no immortal soul and my conscience will not outlive my body.
There is no god, no heaven or hell, angels or demons, no sin, no genesis. There is a sense of grandeur in the absence of superstitious rituals. A freedom from cheap comfort.
